This bug was reported in 2012 - and is still present in Kubuntu 14.04.
How can we help to fix this?
Writing the console in the lightdm.conf is no real fix.
Why is it not possible to switch keyboard layouts according to users
preferences after the user has entered hi username (or clicked on his user
picture?)
The keyboard layout should not be tied to a computer (=lightdm.conf), but user
specific: There could be a computer that is used by many different users, all
having their own layout ("semi-public" computer, shared in a library or
student's home with different people having their own account, sharing the same
keyboard...)
So why not let lightdm (who IMHO is in charge of setting the layout then)
decide after selecting the user which layout should be chosen? It could be done
like in Unity-greeter: the greeter looks up the user desktop picture and
displays it in the moment the user is selected. This must be cached in a
central place anyway because the user partition could be encrypted. But that is
solved in unity-greeter as well.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/995715
Title:
X defaulting keyboard locale to US at login after upgrading
distribution if a Logitech Unifying Receiver is plugged in
Status in “xserver-xorg-input-evdev” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
After upgrading Kubuntu Oneiric to Precise, X locale is defaulted to
en_US regardless of system-wide and user-specific options.
I found out about this issue when I tried to login via the KDM greeter
and it was not recognizing my password. I got pam authentication
failures in the auth.log, but authorizations files were just fine. In
fact, I could login from the console and within KDE itself. When I
tried typing into the KDM username box, I found out that special
characters were not corresponding to my it_IT layout. My password was
including the special character @ that was typed as ; thus not
accepting my password. I worked this around by changing password to
not include any special character.
I installed LightDM and the problem persisted, so I thought about an
evdev bug.
I posted this issue on the Kubuntu Forums at first, where you can find
more information and logs [
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58623-Can-t-login-via-KDM-
after-upgrading-to-Precise ].
Recently, German users were experiencing the same problem [
http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/topic/kein-login-in-kdm-nach-upgrade/ ]
where I found out that the only thing in common is a wireless
keyboard.
I bought a Logitech K800 (which uses a Unifying Receiver) when I was
running Oneiric, making this the first time I upgraded a distribution
while a wireless keyboard is connected. If that happens to be the
problem, it could mean that my keyboard locale was not recognized
during the upgrade process.
I'm attaching some configuration files and logs, please tell me if you
need more information.
$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
$ uname -a
Linux melchior 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #38-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 1 16:40:26 UTC
2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg:
Installato: 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
Candidato: 1:7.6+12ubuntu1
Tabella versione:
*** 1:7.6+12ubuntu1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy xserver-xorg-input-evdev
xserver-xorg-input-evdev:
Installato: 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
Candidato: 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1
Tabella versione:
*** 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy locales
locales:
Installato: 2.13+git20120306-3
Candidato: 2.13+git20120306-3
Tabella versione:
*** 2.13+git20120306-3 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ apt-cache policy console-data
console-data:
Installato: (nessuno)
Candidato: 2:1.12-1
Tabella versione:
2:1.12-1 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386
Packages
$ apt-cache policy kdm
kdm:
Installato: 4:4.8.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2
Candidato: 4:4.8.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2
Tabella versione:
*** 4:4.8.3-0ubuntu0.1~ppa2 0
500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ precise/main
i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4:4.8.2a-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
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